MEDIA SERVICE

RESTful API to support the Movie App with Express, Concurrently + Nodemon and PostgreSQL integration

Local Quickstart

• you'll need a psql database configured first
• get to building then try it out! or check on prod

# install packages
npm install

# hot-load for development
npm run dev

# build for production -> /dist
npm run build

# run service
npm run start

Notes

• dev hot-loading: Concurrently package is used to simultaneously watch and compile files on change and restart the server
• dotenv package is required for node apps to read .env variables
• REST arch:
  • Name Your Endpoints
  • HTTP Response Codes
• setting up diagnostics for database execution
• Best Practices for Node.js Development
• Typed requests
• having to return next(err) for every route was a PITA, so i upgraded to beta Express5 which includes middleware that automatically calls next when errors are thrown -- more info

Database Integration

• set up a local database server
• your .env file should look something like this: 5432 is the default but it might be different if you have multiple psql instances

PORT=5555
DB_USER=
DB_PASSWORD=
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_PORT=5432
DB_DATABASE=

To-do

• db errors still crash the server -- add handling (test by removing a param that's expected in args)
• make a user request obj with validation like in title.ts
• absolute paths in express is different...
• add validation/param standardization
• add auth
• check out express middlewares
• upgrade to Express5 from beta when that comes out
• check this out
• docker db for local?

Done

• add exception handling and return meaningful json errors
• wire up each proc to and endpoint and test
• write a postman collection